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No. 520,881. Patented June 5, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND J. HAGEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY- MESNE'ASSIGIN-MENTS, TO EDWARD I-I. MILLER, OF SAME PLACE.

.ClGAR-BUNCH|NG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,881, dated June 5,1894. Application filed October 2, 1890. Serialllo- 366,852- (No model.)

' a citizen of the United States, residing in the city county, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inOigar-Bun'ching Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cigar-bunching machines, and more particularlythose in which the loose filler is fed, as from a supply hopper, througha throat intermittently into a mold more or less cigar-shaped, and,afterthe tobacco in'said mold is separated from the remainder, as by aknife, the bunch in the mold transferred to the rolling and bindingmechanism, as instanced in a prior United States patent, No. 415,943,issued to me on November 26, 1889.

The main object of my improvement is to adapt machines of this characterto making bunches of the long-filler; and to this end'the inventionconsists of novel means for feeding the long-filler and packing itevenly in the mold, and in order that the invention may be fullyunderstood, I shall first describe in detail the mode in which theinvention is carried into elfect and then point out its various featuresin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part ofthis specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation ofa long-filler cigar-bunching machine embodying my invention on 'the lineX X Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the said machine. Fig. 3 is asectional plan view on the line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectionalelevation on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail face andrear views respectively of one of the feed-blocks of the said machine.Fig. 7 is a face view of the mold-shelland contained mold-section,constituting the mold of the machine. Fig. 8 is asectional plan view ofpart of the said mold-shell and mold-section, and

of the feed-chute registering therewith, on'

the line 8-8, Fig. 7.

Like letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

The hopper A for the supply of the loose long-filler is provided with athroatB opening and extending downward from its bOlltOmdIltO atransversely extending chute G and wlth a rag-wheel C for keeping thefiller in motion and the throat B from clogging. In both the front andrear walls of the depending throat B are for-med a number oflongitudinal slotlike openingsD in which I arrange face to face theserrated engaging ribs E of two feedblocks E,the openings at the end ofthe feedblocks being constantly closed by springplates attached to thefeed-blocks, substantially as in my prior patent, No. 415,943, referredto. I give the opposing feed-blocksE a simultaneous laterally vibratingand longitudinally reciprocating motion, by mechanism to be described,so that, the feed-blocks being raised, they will first be contracted soas to grip therebetween the filler in the throat B, then moved downwardso as to feed apa of the filler into the chute G, then separated so asto release the filler, and then raised to seize the filler anew asbefore. To give this simultaneous motion to the feed-blocks E, they arefitted in the throat-openings D, as guides, to work both longitudinallyand laterally and are extended downward on opposite sides of the chute Gand thereat connected by pivotal links H. 3

To the backs of the opposing feed-blocks E, are pivoted two pairs oftoggle-levers I J, arranged on opposite sides of said feed-blocks, thejoints of which toggle -levers are connected by links K with thecorresponding arms K of an angle lever pivoted at its angle to theframework of the machine and having an arm K which follows a cam K on arevolving cam shaft K so that the joints of the toggle-levers arereciprocated vertically. Each of the toggle levers I is formed with anupwardly extending arm I and a downwardly extending arm 1 and each ofthe toggle levers J with an upwardly extending arm J facing andcorresponding to the said arm I, and a downwardly extending arm J 2facing and corresponding to the arm 1 In each of the arms I and ofthearms I is fixed adj ustably a screw L, which is arranged to engage asa stop a corresponding bearing on each of the arms J and of the arms Jrespectively. The arrangement and adj ust ment is such that as thejoints of the pairs of toggle-levers I J, are raised by the links K asbefore described, the pairs of toggle-levers I J, will first bestraightened, throwing the opposing feed-blocks E apart on their linkconnections H until the adjustable stops L on the lower arms 1 meet thecorresponding bearings on the arms J on which the feed- -b1ocks E willcease to separate and will be raised, until the motion of the links K isreversed by the cam K then the joints of the pairs of togglelevers I Jwill be lowered, again bending the said pairs of toggle-levers anddrawing the opposing feed -blocks together until the stops L on theupper arms I meet the corresponding bearings on the upper arms J, whenthe feed-blocks will cease to approach each other and will be forcedbodily downward. By adjusting the stopsL on the arms I and 1 the play ofthe togglelevers and hence the motion of the feedblocks can beaccurately regulated at will.

With the forward mouth of the chute G, into which the loose filler isfed intermittently by the feed-blocks E, as described, is adapted tocoincide and register normally, as best shown in Figs. 7 and 8, themouth of a movable mold-shell M in which is fitted to slide a moldsection M the face of which approaches the mouth of the shell at eitherend, as shown, thereby forming, with the mold shell, a roughlycigar-shaped mold M.

As described in my prior Patent No.4l5,94:3, wherein however thecorresponding mold-section is shown as sectional instead of solid as inthe present instance, the mold M, after receiving and molding the loosefiller from the chute Gas hereinafter described, is arranged to carrythe said molded filler, after separation by the knife M, to the rollingand binding mechanism, where the molded filler is deposited in therolling apron by the mold-section M plunging forward in the mold-shell MIn the chute G, is fitted to slide longitudinally to and from the moldM, a plunger n, composed by preference of a plurality of laterallyabutting yet separate longitudinal sections N, the several shanks Nwhereof project rearward from the rear open end of the chute, and aremounted to slide longitudinally in corresponding tubular guides O of acarrier 0, common to all. The shanks N of the plunger-sections N areformed with shoulders N and in the rear ends of the guidesO are screwedadjustable sleeves 0 through which the shanks N extend, and between theshoulders N and the heads of the threaded sleeves 0 are placed coiled?springs O to form an elastic connection between the carrierO' and theplunger-sections, while on the ends of the shanks N back of the sleevesO are screwed nuts 0 so that on screwing the sleeves O in the carrier 0'and correspondinglyadjusting the nuts O on the shanks N, the tension ofthe springs 0 and hence the position and elasticity of theplunger-sections N with respect to the carrier 0' may be adjusted atwill. By means of a cam P, cam-following lever P, links P connecting thelever P to the plunger-carrier O, and a weight P acting on the lever P0p positely to the cam, I cause the plunger-carrier O, and plunger,immediately after each feed of tobacco into the chute Gin front of theplunger as previously described, to drive before it the tobacco in thechute forward into the mold M, and to be again retracted before anotherfeed of tobacco into the chute. The described compensating sectionalcharactor of the plunger will cause it to yield to unequal resistancefrom the packing of the tobacco in the mold, and hence form abunch ofequal density throughout, which is separated by the knife M and thentransferred for binding, as before stated. By adjusting theplunger-sections and the tension of their spring connections with thecarrier, the plunger can be adapted to a bunch-mold of any shape, from astraight mold to molds having the shapes of diiferent cigars.

The described character of the feeding and plunging mechanism peculiarlyadapts this machine for use with the long-filler, which is thereby fedand evenly bunched without previous preparation.

I claim as my invention 1. In a feed-mechanism for cigar-bunchingmachines, the combination, with a feed-throat having openings in itsopposite sides, of a pair of feed-blocks Working face to face in saidopposing openings, and means for imparting to the feed-blocks asimultaneous longitudinally reciprocating and laterally vibratingmotion, substantially as described.

2. In a cigar-bunching machine, the combination, with a mold, a chuteinto which the loose filler is fed leading to said mold, a sectionalplunger working in the chute, plunger-operating mechanism and elasticconnections between the plunger-sections and the plunger-operatingmechanism, substantially as described.

3. In a cigar-bunching machine, the combination, with a mold, a chuteleading to said mold, a sectional plunger working in said chute, plungeroperating mechanism, and means for adjusting the plunger-sectionsindependently with respect to the plunger-operating mechanism,substantially as described.

4-. In a cigar-bunching machine, the combination, with a mold, a chuteleading to said mold, a sectional plunger working in said chute,plunger-operating mechanism, elastic connections between theplunger-sections and their operating mechanism, and means for IEOadjusting the tension of the said" elastic 0011- slide; and elasticconnections between said nections of the plunger-sections,substancarrier and the several plunger-sections,sub- 1o tiallyIasdescribed. h stantially as described.

5. 11 a cigar-bunc ing machine, the comi 5 bination, with a mold and achute leading FERDINAND HAGEN' thereto, of a sectional plunger Workingin Witnesses: said chute, a reciprocating carrier in which J. CULBERTPALMER, the several plunger-sections are mounted to CLARENCE L. BURGER.

